Talk:Hermética/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Retrohead (talk · contribs) 21:43, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Since the last review in January, the article underwent a copyediting treatment, so I'll give it another go. Felt I had unfinished business here.--Retrohead (talk) 21:43, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Notes

• Can you check the external links in the GA toolbox on this page? One link changes direction, which means a the url needs to be refreshed.
• The references seem fine, though they are mostly Spanish. My only concern is the status of rock.com.ar (the first of the 'External links'). Does the site have editorial oversight or a staff perhaps?
• I've noticed some inconsistency with the reference formatting. There are empty fields such as subject-link, interviewer, call sign, city, etc. which need to be eliminated if not filled in the meantime.
• Can you write the year when Scotto left the band in the lead?
• The dashes should be replaced with commas in the history section.
• An information why Hermetica refused to play with Metallica would be nice.
• Is it an universal opinion that their music was old fashioned?

Done. I'm not sure about the background of Rock.com.ar (I didn't gave it much thought because I was not using it as a reference anyway), so I removed it. As you may suspect, a band does not get to play with Metallica for free (or with any major international band, for that matter). The terms and conditions for doing so would be exacting; but most bands would sign anyway: who cares if they can only play for 20 minutes with bad sound quality, if you can be in Metallica's concert? Well, Hermética cares, and so refused to do it (Iorio in his next band would similarily reject other concerts that middle-sized bands would dream about; but that's beyond the scope of this article). As for being old-fashioned, I would suspect that yes, it is an universal opinion, I have read most Argentine metal magazines of the time and never seen anyone saying that Hermética was trendy. In fact, within the urban tribe of Argentine heavy metal fans, being "trendy" is more an insult than a compliment, so I wouldn't really expect to find anyone contesting Rodríguez' review and saying "Hey, Hermética IS trendy!". Iorio himself had repeatedly displayed in interviews his contempt over the current music trends of the time being, from the 1980s to modern day. Cambalachero (talk) 16:29, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the detailed explanation and fulfilling the notes. I'm happy to pass the article. Congratulations.--Retrohead (talk) 19:28, 8 September 2014 (UTC)